Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952) is a Canadian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

and science fiction novelist who resides in her hometown of

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. Dorsey became a writer from an early age and works across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mainstream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy. Dorsey has also written television and stage scripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and reviews. Dorsey currently teaches and holds workshops and readings. She has served on the executive board of the Writers' Guild of Alberta and is a founder of SF Canada. In 1998, Dorsey received the Prix Aurora Award. Dorsey was editor-in-chief of The Books Collective (River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books) from 1992 through 2005.

Bibliography

*''Results of the Ring Toss'' - 1976 *''Hardwired Angel'' - 1987 *''Machine Sex and Other Stories'' - 1988 *''Leaving Marks'' - 1992 *''Black Wine'' - 1997 (winner, James Tiptree, Jr. Award,

Crawford Award :::''See also'' Crawford Medal The IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (short: Crawford award) is a literary award given to a writer whose first fantasy book was published during the preceding 18 months. It's one of several awards presented by ...

Prix Aurora Awards The Aurora Awards (french: Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year."Literary glow of Auroras lure ...

) *''Vanilla and Other Stories'' - 2000 *''A Paradigm of Earth'' - 2001 *''Ice & Other Stories'' - 2018 *''The Adventures of Isabel: A Postmodern Mystery, By the Numbers'' - 2020

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